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'This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism' vs. 'No It Won’t' (theonion.com)

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This classic from The Onion was originally published all the way back in 2003.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I lived in New York City on 9/11/2001.

The Village Voice was a weekly 'alternative' newspaper that covered politics, culture, and the arts.

The pot smoking hippies ran dozens of predictions of what would happen. that included two cartoons.

One showed Dubya as Mickey Mouse. the sorcerer's apprentice was chopping up a broom that looked like Sadam, and getting a million little brooms that looked like bin Ladn. The other was a buddy cop movie where Sadam and bin-Ladn are forced to work together, and eventually learn from each other